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Little  Rock.  February  13th,  18C3.  \ 

General  Orders, 
No.  10. 

The  following  extract  from  a  circular  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector 
General's  Office  under  date  of  Jan'y  18th,  1863,  is  published  for  the  in- 
formation and  guidance  of  all  concerned: 

''  Such  persons  as  are  liable  to  conscription  will  be  allowed  to  join  any 
particular  company  and  regiment,  requiring  recruits,  within  the  command  in 
which  the  officers,"  [enrolling  or  recruiting,]  "  may  be  serving.  In  like 
manner,  such  persons,  as  are  within  conscript  ages,  and  who  may  come  for- 
ward and  olTer  themselves  for  service,  will  be  allowed  to  volunteer,  and  will 
receive  all  the  benefits  which  are  secured  by  law  to  volunteers.  Recruits 
thus  obtliined,  however,  must,  in  all  Oiises.  'enter  companies  already  in  the 
service,  and  cannot  be  organized  into  new  companies  or  regiments." 
By  Command  of  Lieut.  General  Holmes: 

S.  S.  ANDERSON, 

Ass't  Adft  General. 


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